The Gold Bat
Publisher: Standard Ebooks
Published: 2023
Language: eng
Subjects: Humorous stories, English; Boys -- Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction; Schools -- Juvenile fiction; Sports -- Juvenile fiction; Children’s; Fiction
Description: <p>Trevor, the captain of the Wrykyn football team, finds his schoolboy honor in jeopardy when a miniature gold bat known to be in his keeping is misplaced in the course of a prank executed by O’Hara, the irrepressible Irishman. Trevor, O’Hara, and others must find the bat to preserve Trevor’s honor, while also ensuring Wrykyn’s victory in football over their arch-rival Ripton, and suffering increasingly audacious attacks from the sinister and anonymous League.</p> <p><i>The Gold Bat</i> is one of <a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/p-g-wodehouse">P. G. Wodehouse’s</a> earliest works, and the first of several set at the fictional boys’ public school Wrykyn. It was originally serialized in <i>The Captain</i> magazine and later published by A &amp; C Black, London.</p>